The Conversation: Thursday, September 7th, 2017

Flood Insurance Maps; Life Under Threat from North Korea; Unions in Hawaii

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National Flood Insurance Program in Hawaii

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Carol Tyau-Beam

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The State of Hawaii is working to educate the public about flood insurance and has new maps and tools available to help residents assess the risk to their property.

Intro Music: Caring Is Creepy by The Shins

Outro Music: Down In the Flood by The Derek Trucks Band

History of Unions in Hawaii

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Ku`uwehi Hiraishi

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Unions have become a powerful presence across the State of Hawaii, but that was not always the case.

Intro Music: Level by The Raconteurs

Outro Music: Beast of Burden (Instrumental) by The Rock Heroes

Civil Beat Reality Check

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Chad Blair

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Where will Hawaii’s lawmakers be when the music stops next year? The dance has already begun when a high-profile officeholder signals their intention to vacate one office to seek another.

Outro Music: Love is Overtaking Me by Arthur Russell

Geopolitics of Asia

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Bill Dorman

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This has been a week of diplomatic frenzy across the Asia Pacific following Sunday’s nuclear test by North Korea, which U.S. officials say was ten times the size of the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima, Japan.

Outro Music: ASIA by The Recusal

Life Under North Korean Threat

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Jefferson Cronin

Puntan Dos Amantes, a scenic getaway spot in Guam

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Guam has been the target of many a threat from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in recent days. Public Radio Station KPRG in Guam tells us what it's like to live under those threats.

Outro Music: The World Might Not Live Through The Night - Instrumental Version by Atmosphere

73 years after the liberation of Guam, the US government has started to process claims for reparations. A bill signed by President Obama last December resolved decades of disputes over payments to those who suffered under Japanese occupation but we hear from Neal Conan in today’s Pacific News Minute, the arguments aren’t over yet.

In December 1941, Nine-year-old Forrest Mendiola Harris fled when bombs started dropping on his village. Now 85, he told the Pacific Daily News “I just want to say that I’m lucky that I lived through the war.”

Late last week, a federal judge in Guam struck down the territory’s plan to hold a plebiscite on de-colonization. The ruling said that a ballot restricted to Chamorros violates the constitution’s ban on racial discrimination. More from Neal Conan in today’s Pacific News Minute.